“With ArchiCAD 18, GRAPHISOFT has delivered what every architect needs: a revision tool that does all the boring work for us, and a rendering engine that lets us produce fantastic images straight of the box. It is hard not to be impressed.” Michael Herse, Architect, Wilson Architects

“GRAPHISOFT have once again delivered a great release with ArchiCAD 18. The integration of CineRender, MAXON’s CINEMA 4D rendering engine, gives us the ability to create photo-realistic renders straight from ArchiCAD. The Revision Tool is well-designed and enables scalability from small practices to large. The main features for Fulton Trotter Architects are the OPEN BIM enhancements and features with IFC mapping, BCF capabilities and IFC parameter labelling. The additional parameters in Building Materials enhance our current workflows and build on the features of the previous release.” Nathan Hildebrandt, Associate | BIM Manager, Fulton Trotter Architects, Australia

“The integration of CineRender is almost perfect. It integrates with ArchiCAD’s Building Materials, updating them as needed and renders in the background while you keep working on your design with no apparent slow down in your system. As a user of Cinema 4D to render my projects during predesign, this substitutes the steps of exporting the ArchiCAD model, updating textures, lights and camera position with predefined setups within ArchiCAD that can be saved individually as views of your project. For my students, it means one less program interface to learn.” Eduardo Rolón AIA, principal at eduardo rolón arquitectos, Puerto Rico

Hardware for ArchiCAD 18

Recommended hardware

• Processor: 64-bit processor with four or more cores
• RAM: 8 GB or more is recommended, for complex, detailed models 16 GB or more may be required
• Hard disk space: 5 GB free disk space is required for the installation, 10 GB or more is required per active project
• Graphics card: Dedicated OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card with on board memory of 1024 MB or more is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities.
• Display: A resolution of 1440 x 900 or higher is recommended

Minimum hardware

• Processor: 64-bit processor with two cores
• RAM: 4 GB
• Hard disk space: 5 GB or more is required for the installation
• Graphics card: OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card
• Display: A resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher

Ref : ArchiCAD

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